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A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson and produced by Theatre Management and Producing alumna Barbara Whitman ’05 won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama last week. 

The 65th annual Drama Desk Award nominees include productions featuring Columbia Faculty, alumni, and current students. 

Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.

This week we sat down with Stage Management student Kelley Lynne Moncrief ’21 and discussed her work on Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol. Moncrief is a Virgo who worked on the inaugural MTI Senior production of Into The Woods Senior and the Broadway bound musical Becoming Nancy. 

Soft Power by Barnard alumna Jeanine Tesori ’83 and Professor David Henry Hwang, launched its cast recording featuring the Off Broadway cast of the New York premiere production at The Public Theater.

Alumna Nadia Foskolou ’08 translates The Viewpoints Book by professor Anne Bogart and recent adjunct Tina Landau into Greek.

Staff member Sarah Congress will present a portion of her new musical, Lars’s Hostel, as part of the New Work Series’ Emerging Artist Theatre program this fall. 

Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes. This week we sat down with Playwriting alumna Elisabeth Frankel ’19 to discuss her theatrical work and creating art during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frankel is a Leo who has written The German Party, 2076, and The Visitors. She recently served as an Assistant Director on the Classic Stage Company production of Assassins, prior to its postponement.

Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.

This week we sat down with Stage Management alumna Rachel A. Zucker ’17 and discussed her work on Six the Broadway musical. Zucker is a Cancer who has worked on Broadway shows such as Indecent, Farinelli and The King, Pretty Woman, True West, The Prom, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. 

Directing alumna Rachel Chavkin ’08, Professor Morgan Jenness, and Professor Lynn Nottage partner with a team of more than 50 artists to launch The Trickle Up campaign to help provide opportunities for artists to earn income during the shutdown of theatres and arts venues across the country.

Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.

Student Series

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Dramatic Influences

by Lillian Mottern

This series asks Columbia Theatre artists about their artistic obsessions—what drives these individuals, even as it drives them crazy?

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This is Who We Are

by Carlos Barragán

A series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

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Theatre in Motion

by Anastasia Ellis

A series featuring Columbia theatre makers, discussing theatre's movement across stages, through time, and within communities.